Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and
Familiar it looked. Did the same person write these . On the left, graffiti from the National Mall in february. On the right, graffiti on gallows road. I was thinking, what if it is the same individual . Tom in february, somebody wrote graffiti with a conspiracy theory. Similar graffiti was later found on the mount vernon trail. This week, u. S. Park police put out these photos of a man they are looking for in the incident. Among other things, the graffiti said jackie shot jfk, just like in Fairfax County. When did you notice this . Not too long after. The graffiti appeared on the selectric box on gallows road within a week of what happened in d. C. President s day weekend. There were similar writing on stickers on a nearby but they look similar. Tom we called Fairfax County police about the graffiti. They say they will look into it and get back to us. A spokesperson for the National Park service says he is passing these images to the u. S. Park police, who could be very interested. Li
May the sixth actually not may the fifth although some of you may still be reveling in your Cinco De Mayo celebrations and want to keep it may fifth today. But otherwise, we are look, at changing weather through the weekend. Weve still got some pesky showers as low pressure slowly drifts off towards the north and east. Everything that you see on radar drifting downward from cleveland, pittsburgh, charleston, thats a trough thats going to swing through and bring us clouds showers and Cool Conditions today. A little closer to home nothing overhead in washington. There has been a little shower activity out by Cumberland Hagerstown along that 68 corridor. Headed towards winchester and that area of course hosting the virginia golf. 55 in westminster. Its 59 in annapolis. Winds are still out of the south as the actual cold front has not pushed through yet. You could see we are kind of breezy 20 miles an hour in washington but it is through places like cumberland so expect that wind shift to
Reporting that a Current White House official is a significant person of interest in the investigation. Up until now, most of the focus had been on former officials, like mike flynn and paul manafort. Minutes before that story broke, this headline from the New York Times. Trump told russians that firing nut job comey eased pressure from investigation. The president reportedly made the comments during his meeting in the oval office earlier this month. Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not refute the times report. He said comey politicized the investigation and put unnecessary pressure on the ability to negotiate with russia. Now in terms of the Washington Post report, spicer would only say an investigation would only prove there was no collusion. All of this as the president is on his way to saudi arabia. Wendy . Thanks, chris. Now, we have new information about a string of unusual events that caused such a scene in the middle of the morning rush rims. The tires were shot. On the streets
Warning towards shenandoahns i here. But look at this line coming in. Just about everybody is going to be getting significant rainfall across our region. The heaviest now, down around fredericksburg. Look at this coming in to Southern Maryland, d. C. Ive been tracking this storm here, just south of warrenton. No warnings yet, but ive had my eye on this one. A lot of lightning and very heavy rain. And these storms here, back towards culpeper county, have just started to form. This whole line coming through d. C. In the next few hours. What can we expect from these storms . We have the lightning, and amelia has a look at what else we might be getting. The sunshine welcome relief for everybody this afternoon, but thats helped to fire up the thunderstorms, and theyre not moving that quickly and they have with them some very heavy rain. The greatest concern will be some flash flooding out there this evening. You know somebody make sure to remind them of that, never drive through a flooded r